Observations on the Automaton Chess Player

Observations on the Automaton Chess Player is an 1819 London pamphlet, published by an anonymous Oxford graduate, examining the famous chess-playing automaton known as the Turk, which toured Europe astonishing audiences. The writer probes how the illusion of a machine that could play chess was achieved. The book is a primary document in the history of the celebrated hoax. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.